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Brussels History
Brussels the city of Belgium has been inhabited since 2250 BC, when an agrarian Neolithic civilization set up shop in what are now the districts of Schaerbeek, Boitsfort and Uccle. The Romans considered the area a lovely corner of the empire, building villas here during the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.The town continued to grow throughout the millennium. Legend has it that St Géry, bishop of Cambrai and Arras, built a chapel on one of the islands in the swampy Senne (Zenne). In 1843, the Treaty of Verdun split the Frankish Empire along the Schelde (Scheldt) river: this was the first division of Belgian lands into what would become modern-day Wallonia and Vlaanderen (Flanders). When WWI broke out, Germany violated Belgium's neutral status and occupied the country. Naturally enough after such treatment, Belgium signed on with France during the interwar period, and was bombed and occupied by Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1944.Brussels continues to grow and thrive as a major centre for international relations, industry and trade. It still struggles with its identity, and language is still a heated topic, but among the new skyscrapers populated by legions of diplomats and businesspeople, the city's ancient heart continues to beat.
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